The 1960s in Color - Life in America
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In 1966 we went cross country in our new trailer for 6 weeks. Meeting my to be wife in 1967. Still married today!
That's awesome, congrats.
Cool
💞
And the LeMans race?
Main Street America was still here from Buffalo NY to the San Diego border & across the middle... but within 5 yrs all that began to change & Quickly 'per Mall America which obliterated much of Main St. America seemingly overnight & Yes, well before the 24/7 365 onslaughts of Cable & 'High Tech in Overdrive
It was a great time to grow up in the US and be an American. It was all about family. My mom and dad, who grew up in the 1930s with dad going to war in the 1940s, lived to make life better for my brother and me. In the summer I'd go out to play with friends and wouldn't come home until dinnertime. If all four of us went away for a few hours, we didn't bother to lock the doors to the house. The holidays also were very special, as my parents would decorate the house and we'd entertain neighbors and visit relatives during Christmas break. My parents have been gone for seven years now, but the love they had for each other endures and when I am feeling a little down I think of just how blessed my life has been.
Beautiful ❤️
oh yes. I was born in 57. In the summer we just ran around and played. Nobody checked on us. Came back in time for dinner, then back out for a few hours to play hide and seek at the end of the street with whoever ws around.. My grandparents all came from Greece so holiday get togethers were a huge family relative thing. Christmas, and Easter, and Thanksgiving. I had a few cousins that were OK to hang with. They lived in different cities in rhode island, which even though a small state, it was interesting how different their neighborhoods were from mine
We never locked the house or even the car. The neighbors looked out for each other. We had acres of woods to explore. When we went camping, the places were very private-couldn't even see the other campsites. We used an outhouse and pumped water from a well. So much more balanced in relation to nature.
@@gkprivate433 Exactly, same here, same year. I lived in the residential part of a major city. In the 60s many people at night left car windows down and tops down all night in the summer. When we went shopping in the summer we never even thought about rolling up the windows. Left windows down and we expected our cars to be safe when we got back.
@@matrox brings back loving memories of family no longer with us.
I was born in November, 1959. I am so grateful to have grown up in the 60s and 70s. It made me appreciate the 21st-century
Explain appreciate the 21st century
Born in 59 as well, totally agree
Same here, born 59 in New Zealand, it was also great times down here in the 60s and 70s......my uncles and grandparents all talk about American and their deeds from WW2, I read all there popular mechanics and USA hot rod magazines as a teen and knew I needed to go to this place America, I finally did in 1981....
born February 1958
@@keyshawnscott12: Yeah, I couldn't quite connect the dots on that comment either.
It was all good growing up in the 60's. Big house, 2 cars, lots of friends in my neighborhood, playing sports, riding my bike, going fishing with my Grandad. You think it will never end, but it did. 😢
Good times!
Everyone looked so well dressed
Everyone looked the same just like now
People were less skanky
@Thɑт Spοk *Charles Manson has entered the chat*
@Thɑт Spοk they still are
And no one was overweight!
We got our first color T.V. in 1967, that's when we found out that Little Joe's jacket was green!
LOL I kinda remember that.
😂 That’s how I found out about Mr. Greenjeans on Captain Kangaroo!
I got to see Jeanies' bottle in color!!
as of year 61 jeff
We did too....a Philco 23 inch
The very first color TV on our street was the family across the street. Six foot long cabinet with a HiFi record player under the lid. He invited the whole neighborhood over the first night. About 30 of us crammed into a small living room awaiting the miracle. He turned it on and there was the NBC peacock in "living color"! You could have heard a pin drop. All mouths were wide open and then it happened...Bonanza came on and gasps filled the air.
Some neighbors probably stood outside and watched through the open window.
We got our first color tv in 66. Used. My dad told my brother and me not to "play" with it. When the parents weren't around, we turned some knobs to make Spock turn greenfaced and black people redfaced. Watching Bonanza, Batman , Gunsmoke, Ed Sullivan in color was a big deal.
@@rufust.firefly4890 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I remember the first air conditioner in the neighborhood, the kid wasn’t allowed to have the neighborhood kids in the house and we all crammed into his tv room where the air conditioner was while his mom was taking a nap, she woke up and found 16 dirty, snotty nose kids soaking in all that cool air.
My parents got our first color TV for Christmas in 1961 and the first show we watched was, you guessed it, Bonanza.
Kids today don't understand how tough we kids had it in the early '60s. We had to trudge through 12 ft. of shag carpet to get to the TV to change the channel.
I remember in the 60s walking 10 miles to school each morning barefoot in the snow. Only to find school canceled that day.😫
Was it green or gold carpet? Oh and the calluses on the fingers from changing the channel. Haha!
@@matrox Up hill both ways, lol
LOL it's a wonder any of us made it!
@@matrox They never cancelled school back then. Now I know you're pulling our leg.
Recollection Road, next best thing to going back in time!!!
Love it!! 🥰🥰
I miss those days. Thank you for your channel
Hello Rosa S how are you
Love your channel but hate the past common it's 2021 what about these times because if you think about these times logically it's basically the same as now but with limited technology!!!
Yet this society doomed us all to global warming....but climate change is fake news!!!
I loved that milk was delivered to our front doorstep and nobody took it ( the way you see porch thrives taking people’s packages today). Also, I’m not a prude, but I do miss how people did not curse and use rough language as much when I was a kid in the 60’s.
People take packages today because there is tech and expensive stuff in the packages and nobody would steal milk
@@bybgobhijjkyybybhubv3683 Actually, people take packages today because of a societal degradation of morality and empathy. If milk were still delivered, there would most certainly be people who would steal it. Just because your mom buys the milk that you drink, but not the items that you steal, this does not make milk worthless. If your mom stopped buying milk and it was sitting on your neighbor's stoop, you come across as the type that would definitely steal it.
@@HangTimeDeluxe no one would steal milk
LOL Societal degradation? Back then, blacks sat on the back of buses, domestic violence was acceptable, and the KKK ruled. Talk about empathy. They had none.
@@ronaldmayle1823 Ronald, I’m black. BELIEVE ME I don’t glorify or romanticize the era in which I grew up. However, I also won’t deny that some things were more relaxed and pleasant back then. And by the way, we as people of color are STILL relegated to “the back of the bus” in mortgages, job advancement and more; domestic violence is STILL “ alive and well”, only it extends beyond the realm of abusive spouses and still includes the domestic violence perpetrated by domestic officials through false arrests, beatings and often deaths; and the KKK is still very much alive today-it just packages itself differently as evidenced by the events of January 6th.
I was twelve in 1969. Watched Neil and Buzz walk on the moon on my auntie's color console television. We grilled burgers, dogs. Auntie made nice salads, tea and condiments. sublime times for sure.
My father was still watching a Black & White television up to when he died in 1984 at the age of 62, he said he wasn't interested in a color television. I know the 60s and 70s weren't perfect but I'll go back in a heartbeat. 📺
I agree Clinton, me too!🙂
How I feel (though I was born in '77).
Why would he not have not wanted a color TV?
@@MIKECNW Some people are like that. My parents were. I suppose when you live with a sense of thrift and austerity you tend to not want the latest flashiest thing.
@@MIKECNW It was why I had to put up watching black and white TV's as a child in my bedroom in the 80's.
It was a great time to grow up!
Indeed it was , NO comparison to Todays World ...
It was , for sure. Everything was so much more wholesome and happy.
I liked the 50s better.
It was a magical time
@@georgschmidt5281
You must be an old guy , like me 😉
The 50 's were amazing also, I must Agree ! Wishing it was like then Today ...
*Born in 1957, till today, 64 years old I respected my role, four daughters and four grandchildren, I thank god that I enjoyed a bit of the 50s throughout the 60s...*
*I remember sleeping on those very hot summer nights on the fire escape living in the Bronx, without a care in the air...* 🌴😁👍
I can't imagine sleeping safely outdoors in ANY of the boroughs these days!
Here I thought I was the only one that slept on the fire escape growing up in BKLYN during the 50's and 60's.
I was my Dad's remote back then.I miss my Dad.
... and rooftop antenna servo ;)
Me too, lol
Awesome
lmao
I remember going the drive in the station wagon with my parents and siblings to watch The Ghost and Mr. Chicken. Mom made lots of popcorn and placed it in a paper bag, and then the generic pop in all flavors in the ice chest! Those were wonderful days during the 60's for us kids!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That movie is still a fav. Have it on VHS! One of my fondest summer memories was Movie Night at the swim club. Ghost was one of the best. 👻
Nancy Gratitude: Remember it well. My mom made a big bag of popcorn and a jug of Kool-Aid and we all went to the local drive-in on Wednesday which was "Buck Night" (They only charged one dollar for the whole carload).
I'm watching "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken" tonight on MeTV.
@@julienielsen3746 ENJOY!!!!!
Julie Nielsen That is so cool!
Back when the household television set was a major piece of wood furniture. Anybody else remember taking tubes to the testing station in the the local drug or hardware store?
My Grandfather was a TV repairman. 👍
They had tube testers in some grocery stores where I live
Or the TV repairman coming to your home to fix it or haul it away for a few days.
I remember tubes.
My father usually did that. He could fix just about anything.
I was born in 2005, but I constantly find myself watching videos like this wishing I could see what a simpler time would’ve looked like. I have always felt that I was born in the wrong decade, though.
2006 and same. I'm torn between rather i'd like to be in high school in 1994 or 1964. Ever since I can remember I was always interested and weirdly nostalgic for these time periods. And on top of that the 2020s just suck..
hey lukesnyder and stupidfreak ...I was there, elementary school in late 60s. I had no way to know how better it was than now, so yeah, seeing what this planet has become is enough to make you suicidal. 😢. im sorry you two weren't around with me back then. I feel like you're both super smart, we coulda been great friends. bless you both bros
me too except i’m watching this so i can write my story more accuratelu
@@charc9552 LOL if you had your wish you woulda probably been blazin lots o' weed by late 60s hehe 😂 I missed it too, just a wee lad then. and BTW, the cars back then were works of art, not the plastic jellybeans they push now - uggh
I'm so happy to be born in the decade I was. As much as I love learning about the 1900's, I'd NEVER want to live there. With all the racism and hate, it's just not for me.
It was a great time to grow up in America. ❤️🇺🇸 Oh how I miss my America.
What year are you in 2160?
You are white
The cars, the toys, the vacations with the family. I had a great family life and a good childhood. My school life wasn't so great but my family life more than made up for it. Wouldn't trade the '60s for nothing.
That's how I feel about the '80s.
I wasn't even 6 yet when the original Woodstock happened. The 70s were my grade school and middle school years, and my Freshman year in high school. The 80s was my driver license and freedom with wheels years. The 80s, probably my favorite decade overall.
@@MisterMikeTexas the 80s how much time was spent watching mtv!
Some of us millennials envy you, maybe just a handful but I am one of them. I know I’ll get much criticism for this 🤷🏻♀️
Women didn’t shave back then
I'm 61 ,grew up during the better times in America ...the best music, TV, holidays were a happy time of year for most...now most people dont even say Merry Christmas and Happy New Year like they use to,but sad to say that I will be dying in the worst of times in America........If we don't start fighting back.
Just who do we fight?
The times they are a-changin' and are no longer for you or me. We've had our day in the sun.
@@markfrench8892 liberals. They destroy everything they touch.
@@ilovegoodsax I feel sorry for the young people who have to have THEIR 'day-in-the-sun' being WOKE!
@@orionwarren4244 Pretty soon we wont even have the concept of nuclear families. 4th wave feminism will see to that.
One of my favorite memories of the 60s was when, at the ripe old age of 11 I watched the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. I said to myself "THAT'S what I want to do!" and I did. Played music professionally for decades.
"Ladies and Gentlemen....the Beatles"! The audience exploded with screams. The look on Ed's face. While they were playing, Ed went backstage and resigned them for the next several weeks. Unheard of in that day.
I was the same age, and aside from the great music, which my parents scowled at was the fact: GASP,! their long hair!
I was 7 in 1964 when the Beatles came to Los Angeles. My siblings (who are older) and I watched them get off the airplane. We had a tiny television in our living room. My dad couldn't understand why we were so excited 😆. All he saw were 4 young lads with funny hair and a bunch of teen girls screaming and crying.
@@coleparker My dad was the mo re shocked by their appearance than my mother, who was a musician in her younger day. She actually liked the Beatles,, the Rolling Stones and the Monkees. She was very open-minded. Btw, she would have been 100 yrs old this passing February of 2022!
I graduated from High school in 1977 . I do not know how many kids told me they went to Woodstock My sister watched the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show, I was not interested then
Tv and Tv dinners. Families spent time together. No smartphones. Kids played outdoors until dinner time and you could hear all the mom's yelling for their kids to come home. Wasn't a perfect time, we were at war but I would sure trade it for these crummy days !
AMEN to that.
In summer as kids we were gone exploring all day long! WE ate dinner together every night. Waited by the phone for boys to call. A slower, more relaxed lifestyle, no competition to keep up with all the pervasive technological inventions. Yes, I miss it. Also, kids were disciplined and usually polite to adults. Little violence, cussing or sexuality on display. If you misbehaved in school you go punished at home.
Where I grew up in the 1960s, believe it or not, no one ever talked about war.
@@terrietravis3203 Oh there was a lot of violence. Have you ever watched Gunsmoke?
@@Kelle0284 Yes, bu that violence was not so graphic. You rarely saw more than guys falling over.
Back when you went to the drugstore to get a 'glass tube' in a small numbered box to fix the TV in the back of the set like a house fuse.
Mom would send me to Pecks drugs in Kazoo with a paper bag of tubes to check out on that big machine! cold, foot of snow on the ground I'd come home with the new tube just in time to watch Ed Sullivan!!!
@@halbud that machine was so cool!
I was 15 in 1960 I don't remember being able to buy
Tubes for the TV at the drug store we had TV repair people that came to the house in a small van loaded
With tubes and got your TV working.
Lenis, then you missed out on the big weird machine they had to test your tubes! It looked like a giant computer! Folks that got them from the drugstore couldn't afford the TV repairman.
@@tymesho I lived in a small town around 6k population there were 3 drug stores maybe they had
That machine but I was a teenager all I had on my mind was girls and cars in that order.
I miss the corner drug store and soda fountain. 5 cents for Hershey bars and Coke. Penny candy and long summer vacations.
I was a soda jerk growing up.. it was one of my first real jobs. I loved it. I have a funny story about making milkshakes. we had a deep fat fryer to make French fries. well, I dropped one frozen fry on the floor after I had put up three shakes on the mixer.. well, it was busy, I turned around to help someone else at the counter... when I heard an unusual rattling sound, I turned my head to see one of the milk shakes was about to shake off...but the customer that I had ask to help, had begun to talk. About that time, grin, a blob of ice cream hit me in the side of my head. I just continued to take her order... turned and stepped on that one frozen fry and slid...grin...i acted like it was all part of the act. Grin.. it wasn't one of my better days, but looking back... it was a fun time. laughing.
and wonders when you 15 ounce bottle coke for 15 or 16 cents, and when you return the bottle you got 3 cents for it, which went up to 5 cents later on.
Yep, and we'd pull out the kickstands, park our bikes in front of the store, and not have to worry about anyone stealing them.
@@l.rongardner2150 I was just saying that to my wife yesterday.
@Daisy Fields Yep, and wax straws with that sugar juice in them.
I grew up in the sixties. All of the things that I wanted to say here, have already been said by all of you and your wonderful statements. I guess that most of us here seem to have those same memories. I smile when I think back to what it was like growing up during that time.Then I just want to cry, because I miss it so terribly.✌❤ to all of you.
Different world back then... I feel lucky to have lived it. Thanks for another great video.
1960’s for myself and many other was our Halcyon Days. Grew up in Rancho Cordova Ca. Dad worked the Saturn Project at Aerojet making the Third Stage Boosters. The community was a tight knit group. Mather AFB And Navigator Training. With Fly over of all sorts of planes. Even the Pregnant Guppy. All new homes. Great community center. Pools Parks Shopping Centers Schools all within walking distance. It was truly a terrific time to be alive and enjoy being a kid. Great trips to Sierra Foothills or Beaches. Drive Ins Movies or A&W Root Beer. These videos makes me Melancholy. Thanks for the memories.
The videos make me feel a bit melancholic as well. Growing up in the '50s and '60s, I lived with my parents and sister in the city of Lakewood, California, Los Angeles County, next to the city of Long Beach, not far from Pacific Coast Highway and the Pacific Ocean. It was A Wonderful Life.
I grew up in Sacramento & the Bay Area in the 60’s....my dad worked for a short time at McClellan AFB...before he moved to the Bay Area in the early 60s great time to be a kid!
My daughter is married to a wonderful guy in the AF. Had my first experience of base life visiting them in Altus, OK. when we drove my granddaughter to school. As we come to the school, the cars queued up in a line in a semicircular drive in front of the front door. As each car arrived at the front door a volunteer would open the door of the seat where there was a child/children and greet them welcoming them to school on base that day. It all went so smoothly I was duly impressed! When I had to drive her to a public school a couple of years later what I witnessed was complete chaos!!! Aggravating, every car was jockeying for position and each child languishing while getting out of their parent’s car-WHAT a difference!!!! It was an absurd way to handle the situation,no one seemed to be in charge. Kids were grumpy and not in any way considerate of the next person to be dropped off. I’ll take the AF way ANY DAY!!
The 2020s are better....the 60s made the black Americans just as racist as the white, and Latinos we're back then
I remember the Beatles, British Invasion and Motown
Ditto. My Top 4 British invasion bands were The Beatles, The Kinks, The Yardbirds, and The Who.
There you go, the music the great music of those times. Rock & Roll was just getting it's footing. Out of the gate bands were tearing it up with killer music. To experience that music as it was coming out was the best. Lucky us.
Best decade ever growing up in !!
Oh, my absolute favorite TV show: The Andy Griffith Show! When this Covid none sense is over, I will order the entire set! There will never be a show like that, thanks to Don Knotts! (R.I.P)
Have you considered that your life would be less nauseating if you stopped licking your mother's 💩🕳
My favorite TV series was The Fugitive (1963-1967), a Quinn Martin Production starring David Janssen as Dr. Richard Kimble. In black and white the first three seasons and in color for Season 4.
Yes, that was a good show, "The Fugitive". I wonder what ever became of "Quinn Martin Production".
Me, too.
@Da Big Kahuna Catfish Barnaby Jones, The Streets Of San Francisco 👍, Cannon, The Untouchables.
@Da Big Kahuna Catfish The Untouchables (1959-1960).
Yes!
A great decade despite the problems. I miss my childhood.
That was nothing compared to the 20s
I am so glad I grew up in the sixties. Playing with friends, going to the county fairs, family reunions and all the families members still living. There were 13 in my mom's family, and 6 in my dad's. Any get together was adorned with a feast of food and good conversation. Watching Bonanza, Dragnet, Alfred Hitchcock and all the cartoons. Summers did last forever. How I wish I could go back for just one day and re-live all these memories.
With out a doubt, the best time to grow up. I was born in 1953 and got to experience it all. So much going on. The music was and still is the best ever. The world stage was in a constant state of change. An awesome time to grow up and witness it all.👍👍
I miss the true love I had then. She is gone but I’ll never forget her.
Who was she
Which country
What happened to her?
Absence makes the heart grow fonder...
She's not gone if remembered.
Summers seemed to last forever.
I wanted summers to last forever because I hated school. I hated being around a lot of people and under control of others.
Yes, indeed.
Come in when the street lights come on...
Oh and if I had the choice…
yeah I'd always wanna be there
My favorite memory from the 1096s...ALL OF THEM.. All of the times were great in the 1960s. I grew up through these years. Now at 65 yrs old, I long for those days.
I'm so happy to have grown up in the 60s. I miss those days SO much.
One day my father called all of us kids to come into the house saying he had a surprise for us. He had us close our eyes as we walked into the living room. As we opened our eyes he told us he bought us a color tv. The color tv turned out to be a three color sheet of plastic that he put on the screen. It was green on the bottom for the ground, yellow in the middle for the skin tone, and blue on the top for the sky. It cost him a whole dollar. Needless to say we were very disappointed.
>>> and dad pretended to give you kids an allowance and you pretended to earn it.☺
I remember those. Color TVs back then were not much better.😂
i remember those lol
god i hope he told other much better jokes...
I remember my mom telling me about that colored plastic and how stupid it was.
I was born in early 1960's. My dad was military so we lived overseas and back East. I remember flying Pan Am and Lufthansa overseas. It was a whole new world. Coming back to the States i remember road trips on Route 66! Wow. The memories. Traveling coast to coast, no GPS, no seat belts, no fm stereo, no atm, no cell phones. And we survived!
You not only survived, but had the time of your life!!!!!!!!!!!
And no tattoos!
I was born in the late 50s. I remember sticking my head out the window from the back seat playing with a pinwheel in the wind going down the road.
Women didn’t shave back then ew
Those Jetliner was a narrow body quad jet aircraft such as Douglas DC10 8 and Boeing 707
My sweetest memories are of time with my family in the 1960s. Thank you for your channel. 🙏🏼🌿
Yeah but the 20s are better!!!
Running in the sprinkler. When we were done Mom gave us Kool-Aid (frozen in aluminum ice cube trays) in a paper napkin.
Only 3 stations,and we could always find good shows. Now endless ads,and garbage shows.
LOL, we were lucky to get 2 channels and sometimes would have to climb up on the roof to turn the antenna until we got one of those motorized turners. And now I watch antenna TV after cutting the cord and I watch old TV shows and old movies from those days .
Yea now you have endless amount of channels and still find nothing but junk. Yes those were the best 3 stations .
@@davidmacek2354 That's why I finally cut the cord over a year ago and already saved about 1800 dollars and I get 2 stations with my antenna that have old shows and old movies on them and I don't get mad anymore.
No, one might want to remember always good shows, but there was a lot of junk. We just watched because there was nothing else on.
We look back at Gilligan's Island, I Dream of Jeannie, Gomer Pyle, etc with nostalgia, but they were actually pretty stupid shows.
I grew up watching WQAD, Moline; WHBF, Rock Island; and WOC, Davenport all in the Quad Cities. All had great shows. I didn’t know that other places had their own 3 or more tv stations. I was surprised to find that other places had never heard of WQAD, WHBF, or WOC!
The NBC peacock "the following program is brought to you in living color on NBC" or the Sunday night "Walt Disney's wonderful world of color"
On Sundays
Yes, well those stations have now completely destroyed childhood!!!!!!!!!!!!
I liked Rowan and Martin Laugh In, Andy Williams, Sing Along With Mitch., Bonanza, Lawrence Welk, The special programs that promoted new Herb Alpert records. The FBI with Ephraim Zimbalist, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. Hogans Heroes.
The Steve Allen Show with Don Knotts, Tom Poston, Louie Nye, and some other crazy people.
@Michael Klouser Batman 1966! Yes! Adam West. I still have my corgi batmobile toy car and the ideal toy Batcave carrying case.
I grew-up in the late 50's & 60's & i love looking back on those times it is so comforting, would I trade that time for growing-up in today's world absolutely not, we had solid values instilled in us & such fun times because we weren't glued to a phone or computer, my family went to the park after dinner & we played baseball, had picnics on weekends, went for family drives & had extended family over for dinner on Sundays, it was heaven!
What I cherish most and yearn for was the pure innocence of youth and childhood. That is something the youth of today will never know. I guess I was blessed to experienced that time period.
Best decade to grow up in.. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Absolutely! We were very lucky!
Another great video 🍻❤️thank you!!!!
Hello to all our American friends. I'm writing here from the small Island in Great Britain and how times have sure changed and not at all for the better. I was born in 1965 the year of and just like America England has changed so dramatically. Growing up in the 70's was a time of wonderment, peace ,tranquility and so many places of solitude. However, of course such locations still exist but it's the old fashioned values that have sadly been eroded! It's so nice to hear from most people about such times that will never be experienced again. We send our love to our brothers and sisters all over America. Best wishes and regards, David.
I agree 💯 with you all meaningful values have gone it's such a shame to have lost those values I found that this scripture in the book of Timothy second C3v1 discribes the time we are living in it says that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here and that children will be disobedient to parents unthankful disloyal having no natural affection not open to any agreement with out self control fierce without goodness peace to you Eileen
Best to our British brothers and sisters, too!
If for only one more childhood summer like we had when times were simpler. Makes me melancholy to remember, but grateful to have experienced.
Our t.v. had an antenna with aluminum foil wrapped around it to help reception.
I had to actually hold the antenna so I could watch Batman & Robin. Good times!
Three channels, went off at midnight with the national anthem, cartoons were
only shown on Saturdays. Memories.
Antenna on the roof and the "clicker" to rotate the antenna sitting on the TV...horizontal and vertical hold buttons on the TV...
Born 1961, remember all this in the late 60s. Especially the news headlines. My grandfather use to bring the newspaper home every day and all the violence and death splashed across the paper in bold pictures.
I was born in March of 1961, a most excellent year for humans. We were indeed treated not only to violence and death but live violence and death to boot!
Also in those days we still had LIFE, LOOK AND THE SATURDAY EVENING POST MAGAZINES.
@@coleparker Wonderful magazines! I still have a very large collection of all of those magazines, from the 1930s to the 1960s, depending on the publication.
@@coleparker And Boys Life magazines.
@@matrox Yeah I liked that magazine as well. It was a BOYS magazine and had things that boys at that time were interested in such as, tips on building plastic models, Indian lore and tracking, Space travel, etc. etc. I don't know if it is still in circulation but if so, it probably called boys and girls magazine and has articles about boys wearing dresses or make up. and is
Great video thanks my grandmother was the first one in our family to own a color TV. We’d go for a visit on Sunday afternoon have dinner and watch Walt Disney Wonderful world of color
Back when Disney was great. Couldn't wait for Sunday night, but it sucked when it was a 2 part one.
@Harvey Funkenstein I went across the road to my buddies house to watch Batman in the afternoon on their color TV. Catwoman 😍 Oh and please watch how you mention boomers, you left me a comment about boomers and I almost thought you were saying we screwed up this COUNTRY, no the CROOKED POLITICIANS and CROOKED LAWYERS and some of the greedy businesses. LOL
Every Sunday after church my mom cooked a huge meal, then Sun evening we would watch Walt Disney world while eating popcorn & apples! Great memories!
And Ed Sullivan...
Before disney became the perverted mess we see today
It was great until about 1967.
Then it all fell apart.
The early 1960's were awesome.
A great time to be a little kid.
I grew up in the 1960s.If I could time travel I would go back.It was a wonderful time.You didn't have to have a lot of money to survive.We never locked the doors.The summers were long and pleasant.
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G’day mate, A BIG shoutout from Australia. Wonderful look back to a far simpler life. Australia only got colour t.v. In 1975. I remember well, cause a good friend of mine at the time, his family was the first to get a colour t.v. In our street. OH Man!, was I jealous too. We still had a b/w set. His family’s t.v was in a fancy wooden cabinet too with two doors you could close to hide the set.The tech was so exciting at that time. My folks eventually got a colour set and I was sold on it.(Ha) Australia only got t.v. way back in 1956. Great post. Great times.👍🇦🇺😄✌️☮️😁
A&W drive in with mom, dad, and six children. Our rootbeer floats were brought to our car by a waitress on roller skates and hooked on the driver's side window. That was my favorite treat served in a frozen glass mug! Slot car racing was popular back then. My dad built a large track on plywood and many sawhorse legs. His buddies would come over in the evenings with their tackle boxes full of slot cars, soldering guns, and extra car parts. I could hear them talking, laughing, and racing. I would sneak down and my dad would let me race, usually not long as I had a lead finger and my dad's car would make it through a figure eight then go airborne at the first wide bank turn! He would get another car out of his tackle box and I would go off to bed! He took me several times to a place in a plaza in Warren Ohio called "Dilly's" where he would meet up with friends to race slot cars. I always got a bottle of pop out of a machine where you would pull your bottle out of a hole after you paid with a nickels. As much as I enjoyed the sixties I believe it was the time spent with family and especially my dad.
I enjoyed your video!
We had a slot car racing shop in Columbus…I later worked with the man who owned it. He said by the early 70’s no one came in anymore and he locked the door one day and never went back..
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That's so sad. Dilly's also closed. We moved from the house with the track in the basement, my parents separated and divorced when I was eight years old. I lost contact with my dad for over 30 years. I reached out to him on Father's Day in the 2000's with a card and letter. We began to write to one another, due to his arthritis he sent me a small tape recorder and we recorded a tape mailing it back and forth, we finally spoke on the phone, then I returned home and met up with him. Since then we've visited there and he's come to visit me here. He is 94 now, has a wholesale business and has a booth in a flea market he drives to every weekend. His business is in die cast cars and electronics. He I've come to see how much alike we are. I also learned that there's two sides to every relationship. I love my mom and dad. I'm grateful for the memories of us together and separate. I'm busy now making great memories with my children and my grandchildren and sharing with them my memories from childhood and how things change and evolve over time! I'll always believe that the early 60's was the best time to be a kid!
my dad grew up in this time period. even though there was a lot of bad stuff going on in the world, he said those were the best times of his life, and he wouldnt have traded it for anything.
@@CanisXYZ shut up
@@ShawnCaldwell11 They’re not wrong and you know it
@@CanisXYZ stop being a racist
Our youth is the best time of our life, even now.
@@subhashishbagchi3191 I don't see how the comment was racist. My grandma who's brown got knives pulled on her at school and was spit on constantly. My grandfather who is white has told me only of pleasant memories he has of that time, except for some stories about his black friend and how the kids at his school would bully him and even slash his car tires. I'm not saying that black people didn't have good times, but race issues were very real during this period. Well probably even worse because my grandparents gree up in the 60s and this video is of the 50s
Such great videos.
The 1960s seemed to be the last decade where people took pride in how they dressed.
Except for those who wear sexually explicit stuff, can't see what else you're ranting about.
Clothes were important to my parents. My brothers all had little sports jackets growing up. HS my oldest bro & I went to private school. 70's we still had play clothes & sneakers.
@@samanthab1923 I didn't go to a private school but I also had "school clothes" and "play clothes." After school and on the weekends I wore my play clothes.
Now that is actually funny 😂😂😂😂😂. Give me my cut offs without a t-shirt on and going barefoot and I was fine 🤣🤣.
Yeah, right. At least they did in the commercials. You're thinking of the 1950s. The hippies were actually mostly dirty and dressed in rags. I went to a Catholic school, so had to wear slacks and a tie. Aside from that, my friends and I wore jeans in the winter, cut off jeans in the summer, and tee shirts and sneakers year round. That was true for the entire decade.
This was the greatest time in world history to be alive.
... in America
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True
With some big changes, not all good e.g. the sexual revolution, our if wedlock pregnancies, woman more prominent( could have been good but wasn’t always) but good things were space achievements, desegregation and black folks on tv shows finally. My favorite memories were have cookouts going to a community pool and drive ins.
I prefer to believe that we'll have even better times in our future
Says you. 50 years people will be saying the same about the 2020’s. Seems shit when you’re in it but you’ll miss it when it’s gone. Also, largely depends on what point in your life you were a kid. You’ll always admire the years you grew up in no matter what decade it was in.
Best decade to live on this planet, wish i could live back then, i grew up in the early-mid '80 , it was the last time it was good....
I watched a Newlywed Game episode where the husband didn't know what a decade is.
Born in Oct. 1960. I have vague memories of the hoopla surrounding The Beatles in 1964 (I remember my brother who's three years older than me on the back porch with his transistor radio singing along to "I Want To Hold Your Hand"), and more vivid memories of watching the Vietnam War unfold on the nightly news. However, the war was in black and white. My family didn't get its first color TV until 1974.
I liked Herb Alpert, Bert Kaempfert, James Last, Al Hirt, Lawrence Welk, . I couldn’t care less about the Beatles until years later. I also liked country music when other kids thought I was weird. I watched parts of the Vietnam War unfold right before my eyes from the deck of a navy salvage ship. From 1968-1970.
I was born October 1959 and also have vague memories of the Beatles on Ed Sullivan. I remember wondering why all the girls were screaming, lol. Ed Sullivan on Sunday nights was a staple in our household.
@@rf101259 Ed was a Sunday night staple at our house too!😁💯
omg yes...transistor and same song......changed my life at 13 years old
Happy 61st :D
One of my favorite memories of the 1960s were family vacations in the New Jersey seashore communities.
I grew up in NJ. What beaches did you go to?
ANd this was my favorite memory too... SEASIDE HEIGHTS NJ!
Up until 15-20 years ago, Wildwood crest actually had some 50s/60s style motels standing. Even though I was born in the 70s, I still fondly remember vacationing down there in the 80s.
My dad would take us to Wildwood. He would get one of those efficiencies about a block away from the ocean. Good memories. I remember my sister peaked inside the tent of the gypsy woman, and the keystone cops. lol Lots of boardwalk memories.
Bonnie Collins Even though my mom wasn't a fan we would go the the amusements at Seaside every summer. We only lived about an hour away. The big thing was the go cart track in Tom's River before the bridge.
My mom's awesome home cooked meals most every evening. Playing outside with all of the neighborhood kids until dinner time then afterward all sitting in the living room watching those great 60's TV shows while munching on dad's skillet popcorn. It was special.
I miss the music. There were tons of great young artists like the Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Byrds, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Kinks, The Beach Boys and a lot more.
I also miss the great TV series like The Twilight Zone, The Wild Wild West, The Man from Uncle, Laramie, Laugh In and on and on.
I miss the clothing styles and cool cars like the early Mustangs. There isn't much about the Sixties that I don't miss except the Vietnam war.
I agree. The amount of great music that evolved in the 60,s was unbelievable. The 60,s were magical.
This era was my first decade of life. My favorite memory is seeing The Beatles on TV for the first time in 1964.
February 9, 1964.
That's what I said too. They inspired me to be become a professional musician!
We saw them too I was eight my husband is mad he didn't see it
Unfortunately, i was born 5-7-68, while the Beatles were recording the White album 🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️I'm a 70's kid.
I was 8 years old the first time the Beatles played on Ed Sullivan. Our whole family gathered in the living room to watch. I laid on the floor in front of the TV. I was mesmerized. I’d never heard music like that or seen boys with such long hair! And I couldn’t understand why all the girls were screaming. My older sister bought the first Beatle’s album and we both played it down in our basement non stop. She would have dance parties down there with a bunch of teenagers. Good times. Now I’m 66 and she’s 76!
Love the music 🎶
I would like to know the name of this song,Its relaxing!
yes I need to know who's playing the piano I've been asking for days who is playing the piano on all of these videos does anybody know???
One of my favorite memories were the beautiful cars and the changes in them every year. I always loved seeing a relative or neighbor's new car. They always seemed so special. We were just about the poorest family in our neighborhood and for most of the 60's our family's car was a junky '58 Chevy. We didn't get a new car until 1969 and that was a worn out '63 Pontiac. It was huge deal when we got our first color TV in 1970. It was a used 1962 RCA that worked good for a few years.
In the 1960s and early 1970s, our family, my dad’s family, and most of our friends had pianos in their living rooms or family rooms. It was a given that after dinner the family and guests would gather around the piano and sing for hours. When the pianist would need a bathroom or dessert break, the young children would take over and play little pieces to the delight of the older folks. I thought it was normal and that the tradition would continue forever. In the late 1970s, after spending an afternoon at a friend’s house singing around the piano with her entire family, I excused myself to the kitchen. My friend followed me and asked what was wrong. “Ours is going to be the last generation to sing around the piano with friends and family.” And so it is. That day was also the last time I sang around the piano with anyone.
Tina, I also grew up when family gatherings meant singing around the piano. It was Christmas carols in December, gospel music anytime, and silly fun folksy songs at birthday parties. I still ask my youngest son to play piano at Christmas, but sadly most guests don't join in.
@@marygrant882 That is sad. But so many folks these days don't know the words to the old songs. And when was the last time sheet music was for sale? My brother and I got the sheet music to the Batman TV show theme and practiced it on the piano until our mother made us stop, LOL. I know the words to WW2 songs and even some WW1 songs and plenty of 1920s and 30s songs. I doubt anyone younger than I am would even recognize the tunes, let along know the words. And without a new generation of piano players and singers, any new songs from the 1970s up until today aren't included. Very sad, but I'm so thankful I was part of that era.
I was born in 1958 and our family would gather with friends and neighbors around a piano, guitar, and banjo and sing for hours. I miss those days. My dad played a mandolin mom played guitar & piano. There was a lady up the street who gave piano lessons for $0.50 per lesson and I took lessons from her. I always cheated because I could play by ear. Once I learned the tune and beat, I forgot about reading music and just played the song!
I was born in the mid-50s the 60s was pretty magical time so many neat things a young boy would like James Bond movies coming out muscle cars on the streets the British motorcycles that dominated until the Japanese took over a&p food store that my mother went to the drive-in hamburger joint on spring Street where they would bring you your food I could go on and on pretty darn cool memories
my dad was raised during the great depredation period he enjoyed the Andy Griffith show trail of the lonesome pine movie with Henry Fonda he passed away in 2016.
People really looked good back then. Nice clothes and slim.
Women didn’t shave back then
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And then segregation was overturned.
@@wizardofahhhs759your joking, right?
I loved the 60's as a kid!!!!!!
The 60s were a special time fir me. I met my husband, married, and had three children between 1962 and 1968. Oh, how I cherish these memories.
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5:34 I'm 62 years old. I never got that bike! I still want a Bike like this.
I'm63 We were poor but mom got me a huffy "sting ray" bike from the jewel tea co. catalog ,made monthly payments! wish i still had it! took me all over Kalamazoo at 8 yrs. old!!!
I traded a BB Gun for a homemade stingrays in 1963/64 Black Bananna seat knobby tire yesssss.
I'm 70 now.(1951)
@@packingten I'm 63 Bet it was a hell of a great bike remember doing wheelies? I'm gonna build a time machine one of these days!!! I'll let you know when its finished !
@@halbud Busted my butt trying that Bud🤪,Yeah let me know,I want an Erector set, A GILBERT one,had the Chemistry set by them made disappearing ink and INDIGO Ink,Had a Marx machine gun these sno flakes would have a stroke over that,Had a Mattel Fanner 50,AND those Snub nose revolvers that shot those little gray bullets,AND last a genuine Rifleman rifle,And we were not rich but Dad was a hustler,I had garden variety 6 guns,And a CANTEEN🤪...What toys did you have Bud others tell us too..
@@halbud Bud I bought a Load of stuff from Jewel Tea,I lived about 1 mile from our J tea man Al,He used to drink coffee with us in the morning,I had a Mr Coffee and that made GOOOOD Coffee😊I ❤ that thing,I gave about 50 bucks for it in 1974!, a fortune then..
For some reason I remember the first time I saw a color tv. It was around 1961-62 and my mother took me into a department store in Cincinnati. I always had to seat a tie and sport coat for church or to go to town. By the end of the decade my hair was down my back and I was a wild child until I joined the army in 1974.
AHHH ! the "60's" Memories oh Memories ! If only we can re visit the good ole 60's
I was born in 62. Great time to be born ❤️
Hello Annmarie Marino how are you
Dad got us a color TV in 1963,Those rounded side pix tube.I was 12.I got my family a color tv in 1970 a Zenith roll about it had great color.
My wife and I bought our first brand new color set about 2009. And we were amazed that it was so thin and light. It was a Sanyo that was bought from Walmart. It had a 32 inch screen! And it cost less than $300! The previous color sets we had were the very heavy CRT picture tube things that took two strong men and a boy to lift. And they were used ones that other people didn’t want so they gave them to us. The pictures were kinda color but very washed out shades of color.
I loved our Zenith roll about we got in the mid 60's!
@@deborahpellerito6117 Did yours have a metal cabinet?, Mine did..
@@packingten Yes! I loved that TV
You guys should do the 70s next. I was just a little kid back then but I do remember many things that went on, gas shortages odds and evens license plates. And all the cool toys we had. Anyway great channel thanks for the memories 🤔
Yes the gas shortages when our CROOKED POLITICIANS told us we were running out of oil. And to think that I'm 61 and have lived through about 20 ..End of the World SCENARIOS..including the Plandemic. But the 60s and 70s were still about the best 20 years in America.
@@freedomring4813 Boy you aren't kidding. I turned 18 in 1975 and had an ominous feeling come over me. Like something had fundamentally changed and not for the better. It's been going downhill ever since to the absolute shitshow we're witnessing now...
@@orionwarren4244 me too!
I cant wait. I'm a 70's kid through and through. I miss wearing my afro!🤣😁
@@freedomring4813 The gas shortages had nothing to do with politicians. There was an OPEC oil embargo to raise prices.
Thank you for the trips you provide down memory lane. I grew up in the 60's and we got our first color TV probably around 1963 to 1964? I wasn't even in school at the time so I can't be sure. I remember watching Walt Disney on Sunday nights in "Technicolor." I didn't know what that meant but it looked much more appealing than black & white. Every year we would watch "The Wizard of Oz," starring Judy Garland and when it switched over to color after she traveled over the rainbow it was truly amazing!
My husband's mother never allowed an upgrade to color tv. He never knew the Wizard of Oz changed colors - he also thought Lucille Ball was a blonde. His mom has a color tv now (at 90) but won't allow the tv on during the daytime. She also won't allow them to turn on the air conditioner much.
Exactly like my years... immigrated in 1957, used to buy my sneakers directly at the Converse Rubber Company factory in Malden, MA. In 1966 graduated from Medford High School and I 1968 frown Wentworth Institute of Technology. Today retired in Sardinia, Italy, and I still make treasure of my childhood years in America... Thank-You All
I have a photograph of me and my Stingray bike ( you called them Banana bikes) on Christmas day 1964. This was in California so Stingray sounded much groovier. Ha.
Likewise, for Christmas. Mine was lime green. Schwinn Sting-Ray.
Correct! The seats were referred to as “banana” seats.
Did it have a Sissy Bar?
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Yes it did. And it kept my newspaper bags from falling off on my newspaper route.
@@photonotavailable7936 I had one of those as well. Remember doing wheeles?
I miss the simple times
I appreciate that your narratives remain apolitical. It’s the best way to keep an audience. Well done Sir!
As a kid in the 60’s, the neighborhood was teeming with us youngest of baby boomers. Ice cream vendors in their musical trucks and vans would traverse the streets, luring kids out of their houses after shaking down their parents for spare change. It wasn’t unusual for a dozen or more kids to surround these vendors waiting to be served. It was really a treat.
Ding Dong trucks. They rang a bell tied to a rope. Crunch Bomb Pop ice cream bars ruled.
I was driving in 1972 and in Dover , NH gas was 25cents a gallon then! loved the video ! Brought back good memories of my childhood!
Life was good in the 1960s. I remember it well!
Me looking back in time from 2021 the way people lived in the 60s looked to me like a different world.
Hello ShAnE how are you
@ShAnE, it WAS a different world!!
Born in 1960. Probably fondest memory was growing up in the country, walking in the woods, and playing community baseball during the summer. Lacing up the skates in the winter and playing pond hockey
Summer of 69 I was 9 my family went on a cross country trip to California from NJ stayed at many small motels on the way . Went to many national parks. It was one of my highlights of my childhood
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Grew up in So Cal in the 60's. I feel very fortunate Dad and Mom moved there from Illinois to start a family. So Cal with my Schwinn Stingray and skate board was the best. Thumbing it to the beach 30 miles away opened up a new world. Then a few years later cruising Whittier Blvd in the early 70's. Good times!!
Awe, to go back in time right now would be a treasure😊❤️
I was born 6-6-60 and being a young boy growing up was magical through the 60's.Becoming a teenager in the 70's I spiraled out of control.
Me too.
I was born 6/10/60 😃
man was born the same day as the devil 💀
Moving out to the country, drive-in theaters, watching football games with the family on the weekends, and, of course, the Lunar landing!!
It's nostalgic ,the best period
The 1960's were the beginning of the golden era of being alive.
I was 7 and my brother was 5 in 1960. My parents bought a 1966 Chevelle in Oct 65 in NYC.
We drove from there to Ft Ord Calif with a two week stop off in Oklahoma. A great experience.